STAND. COM. REP. NO. 694

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 33
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 33 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONSERVATION LICENSE PLATES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to create a long-term
supplemental funding source for endangered species recovery and
management and for youth conservation programs through the
voluntary sale of conservation license plates and grants and
private contributions.

     Your Committee finds that, in order to ensure the long-term
survival of Hawaii's rare plants and animals, the State must not
only increase its current recovery and management efforts, it
must also educate and involve a new generation of natural
resource managers, Hawaii's youth, to become aware and
participate in these efforts.

     During Hawaii's current economic downturn, government must
find ways to fund programs such as endangered species recovery
and management, and youth conservation programs, in ways that do
not impact the general funds of the State.  Your Committee
supports this measure which provides and sets aside an
alternative funding source for these programs through the

 
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voluntary sale of conservation license plates and grants and
private contributions which may be designated for that purpose.

     You Committee has amended this bill by making technical,
nonsubstantive amendments.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B.
No. 33, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 33, S.D. 1.

                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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